DeputyDog
07-18-2023, 03:52 PM
I was helping my niece's son with a genealogy project for 4-H and stumbled on a pretty cool photo.
I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned before that my Dad's Uncle was a career Marine and was taken prisoner on Corregidor when the Philippines surrendered at the start of WWII. I happened to find a group photo taken of the POW's from the camp he was in that was taken when they received word of the Japanese surrender and got control over the camp they were in. The last camp he was in was called Tokyo Camp #8B Hitachi and the POW's were used as labor in a copper mine. He was a Staff Sgt. at the start of the war and was quickly made a Warrant Officer. He stayed in the Corps. after the war and was a Lt. Colonel when he had to take a medical retirement.
In the photo, he is seated 3rd from the left wearing the white undershirt and sandals. At the time this photo was taken there were also a lot of Dutch prisoners from Java in the camp as well.
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I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned before that my Dad's Uncle was a career Marine and was taken prisoner on Corregidor when the Philippines surrendered at the start of WWII. I happened to find a group photo taken of the POW's from the camp he was in that was taken when they received word of the Japanese surrender and got control over the camp they were in. The last camp he was in was called Tokyo Camp #8B Hitachi and the POW's were used as labor in a copper mine. He was a Staff Sgt. at the start of the war and was quickly made a Warrant Officer. He stayed in the Corps. after the war and was a Lt. Colonel when he had to take a medical retirement.
In the photo, he is seated 3rd from the left wearing the white undershirt and sandals. At the time this photo was taken there were also a lot of Dutch prisoners from Java in the camp as well.
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